I’m really not down with calling anything to do with music appropriative. Music isn’t made in a vacuum. Musicians hear other musicians doing something they think sounds cool so they try it. ALL THE TIME. This happens across styles and cultures and races and religions and trends and races and time and space and…

well, zaphod’s just this guy, you know?

I’m sure this has been pointed out before, but Turing Pharmaceuticals is an extremely ironic name for a company that acts without basic humanity.

I actually think he shares your views on the PRWORA. As you know, Clinton vetoed 2 earlier versions which he deemed too conservative. I think it’s important to note that this was part of the Republican “Contract with America.” He was facing tremendous pressure not to veto a third version. I think we all hoped that…

It kinda is the most obvious thing in the world.

So, we could accept that almost everyone has children and make work and government policies that allow women (and men!) to prioritize having children when they are most able to do so healthily. Orrrrrr....we could push wealthy women to spend lots of money on an Invasive procedure which may or may not even solve the…

So, context matters. Notice the comment I replied to: existence of clothes wearing, ergo cultural appropriation. It’s “pretty gross.”

This weekend I caught myself nodding along to a Bruce Springsteen song. Then I realized as a New Yorker I shouldn’t be appropriating the worldview of a New Jersey-born songwriter whose struggles I shall never know.

Regular paternity leave would actually do a lot toward removing the stigma of maternity leave. Employers still think of having and raising children as a “women’s issue,” and consider women getting pregnant a liability, while assuming men who have children won’t have to take time off or change their work habits because…

I wonder how many comments will rise about the “HurrDurrTexasredneckcousinfucker” level.

It’s so easy to dismiss the trial without ever hearing the evidence on the other side, given a long sob story. I’m for criminal law reform and I hate the prison system, but I also know that murderers can be huge liars, and those in solitary sometimes earn it. Newsflash: transgender people can also be violent and…

I’ve read a lot of reasonable explanations why Rachel Dolezal can’t be transracial (suing for racial discrimination while white, for example), but never anything that explains why nobody can be transracial.

I’m not sure this is actually a bad attitude for a police officer. Let me explain. If I’m a police officer and I feel like I have to “solve” domestic violence, I know I can’t –– so maybe I disengage. I tell them to lock the door. On the other hand, if I’m a police officer and I feel like all I have to do is keep the…

#notallhomininae

I get your point, but for us plebes (like me, my husband, and kamla devi jr.) it is an issue. I am a working mom and there have been times where Mr. Devi and Jr. Devi have been out and about on their own without a place to change a diaper. So, even if it doesn't actually happen in Kutcher's life, I'm glad that…

Are people never allowed to grow and evolve in their perspectives? When I was 17-20, I regularly espoused my beliefs that civil unions were fine, being trans was all made up nonsense, that abortion was wrong,and that affirmative action is bullshit.

This is pretty low. A cover letter is supposed to help you show the hiring manager what you can bring to a new job, and this woman wants to use skills she's gained in the past to be a victim advocate in the future. This is probably an entry level job for her, or she'd be talkinga bout her criminal justice experience.…

.... Are they getting a renality show? Eh? Eh?

It is a tricky and sensitive issue, and that's how the field has worked to identify new diagnoses.

The whole "woman's touch" thing really makes me bonkers. That's right, bonkers. I've spent a decade in male dominated work environments. Not anything like silicon valley (I'm a commercial fisherman and a professional brewer), but I'm always the only woman in the room (on the boat).